The military-industrial complex, Washington State, and PNAC. [View All]

[barbaraann]

To me, the Democratic Party has always stood primarily for the values of community and humanity, not for the goals of the military-industrial complex. It just makes me cry to look at the websites of my two Senators.

http://cantwell.senate.gov/news/releases/2003_09_22_tanker.html

http://murray.senate.gov/

I suppose Senators Murray and Cantwell are still operating in the spirit of the revered Scoop Jackson, who was incredibly successful in obtaining federal and military-industrial complex dollars for Washington State and who also seems to have been the godfather of PNAC.

"Current Policy On Iraq May Have Been Born In Washington State
April 3, 2003
By Bryan Johnson

Video : KOMO 4 NEWS
Powerful neo-conservative group suggests that democratization of Iran and Syria should be next.

KING COUNTY - A former senior staffer to the National Security Council says a plan drafted by a neo-conservative group for a New American Century may have been born in Washington State.

The plan was drafted in 1997, and the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) sent a letter to then-President Clinton in 1998 urging him to take action to oust Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The group also suggests the democratization of Syria and Iran.
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Some see a Northwest connection to the PNAC planners. Roger Morris, a former senior staffer at the National Security Council, told KOMO 4 News: "Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and the people who have been their disciples over the past few years all trace back to Henry Scoop Jackson."

For 30 years, Jackson was a Democratic powerhouse in the U.S. Senate from Washington. Morris added: "This foreign policy which you are seeing being enacted by George W. Bush is very largely, in my view, the policy of Scoop Jackson. This was made in Snohomish County, in Everett."
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http://www.komotv.com/stories/24043.htm

The internet has made it really tough to be a yellow dog Democrat.